Teaching Copyright - This site contains a "customizable learning plan to help educators raise interesting questions about copyright, technology and law."
Copyright Challenge: Take this quiz to see what you know about copyright and fair use after checking out the Copyright Kids' resources above. Creative Commons Chooser: Use this interactive tool to choose the correct creative commons licensing for your work.
Bloggers Beware: A blog post about one blogger's experience being sued for using a copyrighted image.
Students Blogging - Copyright!
Resources:
Copyright & Creative Commons - A short film by CommonCraft.
Media Education Foundation - Short film by Eric Faden
A Fair(y) Use Tale
The New Rules of Copyright - compiled by TechLearning (make sure to scroll down to the Do's and Don'ts
Kindergarten Copyright - article by Rosemary Shaw explaining how to make copyright & fairuse meaningful to children.
Copyright Q & A for kids - this site has questions and answers appropriate for younger kids (4th grade)
Teaching Copyright - This site contains a "customizable learning plan to help educators raise interesting questions about copyright, technology and law."
(slide 15 contains a video about Fair Use)
Teaching about Copyright & Fair Use for Media Literacy Education by American University Center for Social Media
Copyright & Fair Use in the Univ. of Maryland University College - An easy outlined view of copyright & fair use.
Copyright Basics by Copyright Kids!
Copyright Challenge: Take this quiz to see what you know about copyright and fair use after checking out the Copyright Kids' resources above.
Creative Commons Chooser: Use this interactive tool to choose the correct creative commons licensing for your work.
Bloggers Beware: A blog post about one blogger's experience being sued for using a copyrighted image.
Obama HOPE Poster artist pleads guilty in copyright case.
USE THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES BELOW FOR YOUR MEDIA:
Creative Commons
PhotoPin - find photos to use in blogs
Imagebase - More free photos
Pics4Learning - More free photos
Phillip Martin Clipart - free clip art - many categories
Public Domain - Images to use for free
Discovery Education - If you have a subscription you can look for images and video to use - specific to a certain content area or grade level.
Open Clip Art - many different graphics
Wylio - free pictures for bloggers
Freesound - sounds for free (but you have to join site)
Free Music Archive